Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945
- Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance
- The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Commercial and Mainstream Theatre
- Chapter 1 Broadway Post-1945 to 1960
- Chapter 2 Bridging the Gap
- Chapter 3 What’s Inside?
- Chapter 4 Shaping Broadway and Off-Broadway Plays through Collaborations
- Part II Regional Theatre Movement
- Part III Experimental Theatre and Other Forms of Entertainment
- Index
- References
Chapter 3 - What’s Inside?
Collaborative Relationships at the Heart of the American Musical
from Part I - Commercial and Mainstream Theatre
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 August 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945
- Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance
- The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Commercial and Mainstream Theatre
- Chapter 1 Broadway Post-1945 to 1960
- Chapter 2 Bridging the Gap
- Chapter 3 What’s Inside?
- Chapter 4 Shaping Broadway and Off-Broadway Plays through Collaborations
- Part II Regional Theatre Movement
- Part III Experimental Theatre and Other Forms of Entertainment
- Index
- References
Summary
By examining musical theatre icons and their major collaborations starting from Oklahoma! (1943) and ending with Waitress (2016), this chapter chronicles the evolution of the American musical, as practitioners assembled creative teams in response to shifting economics and the rise of mediated popular culture on television and the internet. Film studios and corporations such as Disney now develop and produce their own musicals, bringing new resources and structures that both support and expand the collaborative creation of musical theatre. At the same time, regional theatres and not-for-profit venues developed new models of their own for participating in musical theatre collaboration. Whether conceived in consultation with a corporate producer or tested through a low-budget laboratory process, what's inside twenty-first-century American musicals remains the product of creative, collaborative relationships.
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- The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 , pp. 77 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021